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Confessions

St. Augustine

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According to Augustine, God is in all things:

Before the soul enters the body at birth, where is it?

Augustine gives his boyhood teachers credit for:

The motive for Augustine's theft of the pears was:

Patrick sends Augustine to Carthage for further studies so that he can:

God speaks to the young Augustine:

Cicero's Hortensius argues that:

On first reading the Bible, Augustine is turned off by its:

Manicheans believed that evil:

Spiritual substance:

Manicheans found the Old Testament unethical in part because:

According to Augustine, God's law:

Augustine's son is named:

For Augustine, astrology is:

Augustine leaves Thagaste a second time because:

The Confessions take the form of:

Augustine retracts what opinion from his early work On the Beautiful and the Fitting?

Augustine responds to his meeting with Faustus by:

Ambrose advises Augustine:

While first learning about Catholicism in earnest, Augustine is attracted by its:

Augustine agrees to get engaged because:

Augustine takes the child's voice he hears in the Milan garden to mean:

Augustine and Monica begin their joint vision by reflecting on:

Augustine's idea of memory is inspired by:

God's creation of the universe takes place:

According to Augustine, Christ is also:

Augustine suggests that time is which kind of quality of the soul?

The four kinds of memory are:

According to Augustine, time is always tending toward: